NW African climate variations during the last 47,000 years: Evidence from organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 291, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 443-455

  Holzwarth, Ulrike ^a   Meggers, Helge ^b   Esper, Oliver ^c   Kuhlmann, Holger ^a   Freudenthal, Tim ^a   Hensen, Christian ^d   Zonneveld, Karin A F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate cysts; Fluvial input; Northwest Africa; Productivity; Sea level; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; DEGLACIATION; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; HEINRICH EVENT; HETEROTROPHY; HOLOCENE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT CORE; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY BASIN; CAPE JUBY; GUELMIM-ES SMARA; MOROCCO;

DINOPHYCEAE; LINGULODINIUM MACHAEROPHORUM;

EID: 78449260330     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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